Defense lawyer to continue questioning accuser in St. Paul's School rape case in New Hampshire

Former St. Paul's student Owen Labrie confers with his lawyer before the start of the second day of his trial at Merrimack County Superior Court in Concord, N.H., Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. Labrie is accused of raping a 15-year-old freshman as part of the "Senior Salute," a practice of sexual conquest at the prestigious St. Paul's School in Concord. (Geoff Forester/The Concord Monitor via AP, Pool)
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Defendant Owen Labrie, left, and his attorney Jay Carney are seen in court at his trial at the Merrimack County Courthouse Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015, in Concord, N.H., after Carney's cross examination of the former student who accused Labrie of raping her in May of 2014. Labrie is charged with raping the then-15-year-old girl at St. Paul's School in Concord two days before he graduated in 2014. (Geoff Forester/Concord Monitor via AP, Pool)
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Defense attorney Jay Carney cross-examines the former St. Paul's student that accused Owen Labrie of raping her in May of 2014 during the morning testimony in court at Merrimack Superior Court, Thursday Aug. 20, 2015, in Concord, N.H. Owen Labrie is charged with raping the then-15-year-old girl at St. Paul's School in Concord two days before he graduated in 2014. (Geoff Forester/Concord Monitor via AP, Pool)
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CONCORD, N.H. – The teenage girl who has accused a graduate of an elite prep school in New Hampshire of raping her as part of a practice of sexual conquest will be on the witness stand again.

Owen Labrie of Tunbridge, Vermont, is charged with multiple felonies. Prosecutors say he was two days away from graduation last year when he raped the then-15-year-old girl in a building on the grounds of St. Paul's School in Concord as part of "Senior Salute," in which seniors try to have sex with underclassmen.

During testimony Wednesday, the girl, now 16, said she didn't remember telling a close friend about sexual acts she was prepared for when she met up with Labrie.

Labrie, now 19, has pleaded not guilty and said the two had consensual sexual contact but not intercourse.

Prosecutors have described Senior Salute as "the context for this entire event."

The case has cast a critical light on St. Paul's School — one of eight members of a prep school Ivy League of sorts — that boasts as alumni an international roster of senators, congressmen, ambassadors, Pulitzer Prize winners, Nobel laureates and two World Series of Poker winners.

The girl has testified she felt "frozen" when Labrie became aggressive and she said she initially felt the sex assault was her fault for not kicking, screaming or trying to push him off.

"I'm thinking how naive of myself, and I never should have left my room that night," she testified. "I felt like I was out of my body. ... I didn't want to believe this was happening to me."

Testimony continues on Thursday. It began Tuesday and the trial is expected to run for two weeks.